Compiling GNU Cash on OS X

[Thomas Spahni]

Stephen,

take a look at 'config.log'; you should be able to see what happens there.

Regards,
Thomas Spahni

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> Probably not the right place for this question but this thread seems to
> have folks who may be able to answer the question.
> Glade and guile archives are no help. Not even sure of which of the 100
> glade mail lists to post to to ask.
>
> New to unix.
> Want to install gnucash.
> Trying to work through dependencies rather than do the fink-wait-a-day
> process.
> Successfully installed autoconf, automake, gnome and gtk +2 Both glade
> and guile error out with similar problem.
>
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> no
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
> ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
> Failed: compiling glade-0.6.4-3 failed
>
> Appear to be missing a c compiler.
> Guessing error is pretty basic.
> Guessing has something to do with trying to install from source vs
> binary.
> Not sure what to do next.
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Paul Fischer wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to thank John Reynolds and Nicolas Scheffer for helping me get
> > GnuCash compiled and installed on OSX. I want to point out that the
> > compile and install is not as simple as launch fink commander, select
> > unstable packages, and click gnucash to install.
> >
> > Many of the packages GnuCash relies on don't install properly from the
> > unstable feed. To anyone else who tries this, I strongly suggest
> > following the above instructions to see what packages GnuCash wants to
> > install and writing them down or pasting them into a text window. Then
> > cancel the install, go back to stable packages only, and install as
> > many of the packages from the stable list as possible. Then repeat the
> > directions above.
> >
> > I had to drop back to stable packages several times to get dev
> > libraries and other packages to install at all. Also, read the error
> > messages very carefully. At some point, I needed to manually run
> > ranlib on a library that was out of date, but if I hadn't read the
> > error messages in fink commander carefully I would have never seen it.
> >
> > Again, my thanks to all of you for a great product. Getting it running
> > on OS X saved me re-entering 2 years of data in Quicken. I try to
> > avoid using Quicken when possible, but my linux machine died, and I
> > haven't had time to get it working again. GnuCash on OS X is a much
> > better solution for me.
> >
> >
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